At Aperio Global, we bring together experts in cybersecurity, AI, data analytics, and cloud technologies to solve complex national security challenges. We focus on work where our expertise creates the greatest impact.
Our team includes technologists, Intelligence Community veterans, and security professionals who believe the best solutions come from collaboration, accountability, and technical excellence. From cyber operations and AI platforms to cloud-native software and emerging technologies, our work speaks for itself.
We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits, retirement savings with company match, generous paid time off, and professional development. We invest in our people because great missions require great teams.
Mid - to Senior Open-Source Analyst
Washington, DC | On-Site | Active and Current TS/SCI Required
Turn Open-Source Information Into Actionable Intelligence
Aperio Global is seeking experienced Mid-Career to Senior Open-Source Analysts to join our mission-focused team supporting critical national security requirements in Washington, DC.
This is an opportunity for intelligence professionals who know how to move beyond simply finding information. We’re looking for analysts who can discover, assess, connect, and interpret publicly available information (PAI) to help illuminate complex problems, identify emerging developments, and deliver intelligence that supports real-world missions.
If you enjoy digging deeper, connecting seemingly unrelated information, and turning large volumes of open-source data into meaningful intelligence, we want to hear from you.
As a Mid-Career to Senior Open-Source Analyst, you will:
Conduct analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain national security issues and emerging developments that are regional or functional in nature.
Provide all-source and open-source analytic support to intelligence collection, operations, investigations, targeting, and other defense intelligence requirements.
Research and exploit publicly available information, social media, digital platforms, commercial databases, and other Internet-based sources.
Apply qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies to complex intelligence problems.
Remain current on developments in academia, technology, and other disciplines that can enhance intelligence tradecraft and analytic methodology.
Review analytic products for logical arguments, intelligence tradecraft standards, sourcing, and adequate support for conclusions.
Challenge assumptions and test the analytic rigor of intelligence products.
Apply advanced Internet research techniques, including Boolean logic, advanced search methodologies, database exploitation, social networking tools, and commercial or industry-specific resources.
Support complex problem sets, including areas such as cryptocurrency, virtual assets, digital ecosystems, and emerging technologies.
Bachelor’s degree
Demonstrated experience using Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) tools and methodologies
Experience working with complex problem sets such as cryptocurrency and virtual assets
Professional experience related to OSINT research, collection management, intelligence analysis, PAI exploitation, or social media exploitation
Experience accessing, researching, and exploiting global and regional social media and digital platforms
Experience conducting open-source research, all-source intelligence analysis, or targeting
Knowledge of advanced Internet-based research techniques, including Boolean logic, advanced search techniques, search engines, specialized databases, social media, social networking tools, and commercial or industry databases
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
Ability to work rotating shifts, nights, weekends, and holidays; to perform under high stress and short suspense; and to travel domestically and internationally (vaccinations may be required).
Why Aperio Global?
At Aperio Global, we bring together intelligence professionals, technologists, engineers, and mission experts to solve difficult national security challenges. We value people who are intellectually curious, technically capable, and willing to challenge assumptions.
Here, you won't simply search for information—you'll help make sense of it, connect it, and turn it into intelligence that matters.
Ready to bring your OSINT expertise to the mission? Join Aperio Global.
Salary Range: 140-180
The salary range for this role represents Aperio’s good-faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Placement within the range is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to an individual’s qualifications, relevant experience, education, certifications, technical skills, contract labor categories and/or rates, work location, market conditions, and business needs.
At Aperio Global, we understand the value of investing in our most important asset—our employees. That's why we have crafted a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you make the best decision for yourself, your family and your lifestyle. For additional details, contact our talent acquisition team.
Aperio Global is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive workforce where all employees and applicants are treated with respect and fairness. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs — never on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy/childbirth, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, ethnicity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
Aperio Global delivers innovation, interoperability, and integration across cyber operations, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), cloud services, and software development capabilities. We enable mission leaders within the DoD and the IC to achieve strategic, operational, and tactical objectives. We converge technology and expertise to improve, maintain and secure decision-making ability and ultimately, information and decision advantage.
Our innovative solutions derive from successful past performance in full-spectrum cyber operations, AI/ML, data analytics, cloud architecture, and enterprise system development supporting the intelligence community. We support critical missions across National Security, Department of Defense (i.e., Combatant Commands), and Federal Government customers. Integrating our unique experience across Data, Human, Technical and modernization provides customers with interoperability frameworks essential to building and deploying core foundational technologies.
Additionally, we offer our patented AI-based tool, Remote Unsupervised Sentinel (RUSSEL) capability. RUSSEL is a data analytic tool that automates the cleaning, preprocessing, and understanding of big data sets. It provides customers with a machine-learning model for prediction and recommendation and a noise-reduced data output. The results immediately reduce big data analysis's costs, time, and efforts while significantly increasing the resulting accuracy and enabling Decision Advantage.
